As the game progresses, your board grows stronger, your spells hit harder, and your opponents are left struggling to keep up
The social side of the hobby tournaments, deck building, trading remains the main draw for many players
Its still really good, in my opinion
With thousands of legendary creatures to build 100-card singleton decks around (give or take a few for Companions, Backgrounds, and/or Partners), there's truly no limit to how many options players have to express themselves through commander deckbuilding
Between casting removal like Cast Down to drawing a bunch of cards off an Ichor Wellspring with Fanatical Offering there is simply just a metric ton of things that trigger your friendly little Black Mage Hero equipped with the Rod